BONITA SPRINGS, FL-With supreme confidence in the market, the luxury-condominium developer expects to presell about half of the 840 proposed units by this summer and then begin construction on one of the single largest shelter projects proposed in Florida.

CHICAGO-The REIT based here has agreed to sell its portfolio of primarily office and industrial properties to privately held Denholtz Associates. The 3.6 million-sf portfolio's most recent vacancy rate was 16%.

HOLLYWOOD, FL-Hard Rock Cafe International of Orlando and Cordish Co. of Baltimore join the sovereign Native American nation in plans to complete 700-room and 200-room properties by the end of 2002.

ORLANDO-Both sides feel they have the better bargaining hand in a dispute over who came up first with the idea for the three-year-old, 150,000-sf Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World's 30,000-acre enclave in suburban Lake Buena Vista, FL. A settlement for a lesser amount would avoid an expensive hearing shortly before the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach, FL.